Re: Expected Behavior?

Jon Loeliger [off-list ref] writes:

Hmmm. That didn't go too well. Concisely:

    % git merge -s recursive "Grab dev stuff" master dev
    Trying really trivial in-index merge...
    fatal: Merge requires file-level merging
    Nope.
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/usr/bin/git-merge-recursive", line 8, in ?
	from gitMergeCommon import *
    ImportError: No module named gitMergeCommon
    Automatic merge failed/prevented; fix up by hand

Could you check diff between /usr/bin/git-merge-recursive and
git-merge-recursive.py in your source tree and see if the
appending to sys.path points at the right place (i.e. where the
make installs gitMergeCommon.py)?  Mine looks like this:

  --- git-merge-recursive.py      2005-11-08 02:27:08.000000000 +0000
  +++ /usr/bin/git-merge-recursive        2005-11-09 06:17:58.000000000 +0000
  @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
  -#!/usr/bin/python
  +#!/usr/bin/python2.4

   import sys, math, random, os, re, signal, tempfile, stat, errno, traceback
   from heapq import heappush, heappop
   from sets import Set

  -sys.path.append('''@@GIT_PYTHON_PATH@@''')
  +sys.path.append('''/usr/share/git-core/python''')
   from gitMergeCommon import *

   originalIndexFile = os.environ.get('GIT_INDEX_FILE',

By default we set prefix to $HOME so ~/bin/git-merge-recursive
would import ~/share/git-core/python/gitMergeCommon.py.  Binary
packaging typically set prefix to /usr, so the executable is in
/usr/bin, and should import from /usr/share/git-core/python/,
which is as your make log shows:

[ tail end of the make install output ]

install -d -m755 '/usr/share/git-core/templates/'
(cd blt && tar cf - .) | \
(cd '/usr/share/git-core/templates/' && tar xf -)
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/git-core/templates'
install -d -m755 '/usr/share/git-core/python'
install gitMergeCommon.py '/usr/share/git-core/python'